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haggle) wrote2025-05-22 06:06 pmSALTBURNT AU (FOR JUNE).
ANORA MIKHEEVA
💋 SALTBURNT'S OWN MARILYN MONROE
AU ROLE:
The entertainment who never left. The story goes like this: she was brought in to sing at a birthday party, barefoot on the ballroom's piano, red silk dress like a cherry stain against the keys. No one remembers whose birthday it was, only how her voice made everyone stop, listen, and weep. Now she's permanent fixture as the manor’s glamour girl, champagne glass in hand, heartbreak behind the eyes.
She's not exactly staff, or family — she's not even a proper guest anymore. She's kept, draped across sofas in silk robes and backless gowns, preserved like something beautiful and sad in amber. She's been married (and divorced) three times already despite being only 24 — her most recent to football darling FP Jones, a scandalous union that lasted ten months before it crashed and burn, just like the rest.
People call her the estate’s most public secret — all painted lips and mascara tears — always invited, never on the official guest list. She's always rumored to be someone's mistress, everyone's mistake, and no one's wife anymore.
BACKSTORY:
Before Saltburnt, she had a name on marquees.
A West End darling by eighteen, Ani was discovered in a Soho jazz bar by a retired producer who liked the way she sang sultry torch songs like they were tragic confessions. He elevated her until she was playing the doomed ingenue on London's stage, always dying by Act Two, while the world fell in love with her sadness. Audiences wept, critics swooned — and eventually, Hollywood called.
And, for a while, it was everything Ani had ever dreamed.
She was named the next big thing, put in cover shoots, perfume campaigns, cast in femme fatale roles as a silver screen siren. Her voice had rasp, her face had softness, and her body was a weapon. She wanted love, but she kept getting cast in tragedies.
The industry used her up fast. Said she was "difficult" when she cried too much, "unstable" when she wanted to be understood and held, "done" and tired by the time she turned twenty-four, a star that burned up bright — and too fast. A few high-profile breakups followed, then a leaked tape, then rehab rumors. For Ani, the heartbreak has always been louder than the applause.
RUMORS:
🦋 “She makes extra money ‘reading fortunes’ in lingerie. It’s just her guessing how you’ll die, but sexy.”
🦋 “She got kicked out of BAFTA night for saying the Best Actress should’ve gone to her sex tape.”
🦋 “She got banned from a wedding at Saltburnt for giving a toast to the groom’s ex-wife. In Russian.”
🦋 “Every time she gets sad, someone at Saltburnt proposes to her. She’s said yes five times, then ghosted.”
🦋 “She once asked someone to marry her during sex, then forgot by morning.”
🦋 “There’s a video of her and both Colchester boys. No one’s ever seen it, but everyone swears they have.”
🦋 “She keeps a gun in her garter. It's rhinestoned. Safety off.”
🦋 “Her first wedding dress was white latex. Backless, no panties.”
🦋 “She had a sugar daddy die mid-blowjob. Rumor says she finished her drink before calling for help.”
🦋 “She faked her death last year for attention. Threw a party the day after her ‘funeral.’”
🦋 “She said she doesn’t sleep around. She just doesn’t like sleeping alone.”
🦋 “She once slapped Jonty at a masquerade, then kissed Portia in the same breath.”
🦋 “She once bit a man for calling her ‘cheap.’ He tipped her five figures and asked if she’d do it again.”
🦋 “She once walked into a dinner party with nothing under her fur coat but a necklace that read ‘alimony.’”
🦋 “Someone said she keeps her exes’ teeth in a Cartier box. She says that’s ‘a cruel exaggeration. It’s a Tiffany’s box.’”
🦋 “Someone tried to blackmail her with nudes. She has framed them in her hallway.”
🦋 “She wears diamonds in the bath. Says she wants to look beautiful if she dies in it.”
🦋 “She once threw a champagne bottle at a casting agent. Missed. He cast her anyway.”
IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS:
- ASH COLCHESTER — JFK to her Marilyn. Secretive, doomed.
- EMBRY MOORE — RFK to her Marilyn. Twice as doomed.
- FP JONES — Ex-husband #3. Married fast, divorced just as quick. Joe Dimaggio/Marilyn vibes.
- SHADOWHEART — ex-fling.
- JEM WALKER — former step-kid #1.
- DANNY JOHNSON — former step-kid #2, mommy attachment issues.
LOOKING FOR:
- Past marriages, the one ex she never got over, flings she ghosted (oops), her current obsession(s), benefactors who fund her lifestyle, a party circuit crew, her replacement, an understudy, etc etc. If you can dream it, we can build it!! OTA, really.
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VISUALS:
- pinterest board tbd
peasant) wrote2025-05-22 05:00 pmSALTBURNT AU (FOR JUNE).
ALINA ATREIDES
⚜️ THE SAINT OF SALTBURNT
cw: incestuous themes, religious themes
AU ROLE:
Sister Alina, eldest daughter of the hyper-elite Atreides dynasty, is a living contradiction: beloved icon and ghostly recluse. Once hailed as the girl born to save the family, she now resides in Saltburnt's private chapel, part of the elusive Order of the Veiled Heart — a discreet aristocratic Catholic sect known for its luxurious austerity and spiritual elitism.
She is both ghost and ornament to the estate: ever-present, yet never truly seen. Draped in high-fashion habits, velvet prayer books tucked into her sleeve, and rosaries heavy with family crests, Alina has become a living myth — watching Saltburnt’s decadence like a condemned angel behind glass: tragic, unreachable.
BACKSTORY:
As the Atreides family’s firstborn, Alina was groomed from birth to be perfect — the kind of girl who curtsied in custom Dior at thirteen and recited prayers in Latin before dessert. She was the one everyone assumed would inherit the family’s influence, charm, and strategic ruthlessness.
Alina grew up delicate, devout, and adored — a strange, sickly child whose illness turned her into an object of reverence and mysticism. People said she was chosen, that she glowed, that she spoke to God. She nearly died at thirteen, and when she didn’t, the family called it divine favor. Proof the Atreides were blessed.
It was Paul who stayed closest — reading to her, watching over her, brushing her hair while she coughed up blood into silk pillows. Their bond was pure until it wasn’t. She began to fear the thoughts she had when he touched her wrist, when he kissed her forehead, when he held her a little too long.
By the time she turned 16, the sickness had passed. A year later, she was a debutante with a promising future in politics or media — wherever her family's shadow wanted her cast. She was sent to, and shown off, at galas and balls. Appeared on the covers of high fashion magazines. She wore powder-blue gowns and looked like porcelain — delicate, regal, detached. Her health was restored, but people still treated her like she was fragile, like she still might break. She learned to lean into it. She never raised her voice. She never needed to.
When her family tried to arrange a high-profile engagement for her, she disappeared into the convent. Unforgivingly. Alina remains cloistered now — not just because she chose God, but because she knows she can’t trust what she'd choose if she were free.
RUMORS:
☀️ “She refused to wear white on her vow day. Said she didn’t deserve it. Wore ivory instead. Valentino, floor-length, sheer sleeves — it made everyone else feel dirty.”
☀️ “She almost died at thirteen. Some fever no one could name. They say she saw God — and He looked like her brother.”
☀️ “They shared a bed until she was seventeen. You know how those old-money families are — affectionate, European.”
☀️ “She hasn’t spoken above a whisper since 18. Paul’s the only one who can make her laugh.”
☀️ “The youngest Atreides tried to take the veil too. They said she cried when they told her Alina’s vows were for life.”
☀️ “Alia Atreides has tried to get into the convent three times to see her sister. The third time she showed up in nothing but a rosary.”
☀️ “She keeps a pet rabbit in the cloister. It wears a tiny velvet bow and only answers to ‘Revelation.’”
☀️ “She once told a priest to ‘mind his own fucking soul.’ He retired that month.”
☀️ “She still has a walk-in closet. All her habits are designer. One has a slit up the thigh.”
☀️ “She wrote poetry once. One of the maids found it. Burned it. Said it made her sick to read.”
☀️ “She left her mirrors uncovered during Lent. Everyone knows that means she’s possessed.”
☀️ “She cried through her final confession before her vows. But wouldn’t say why.”
☀️ “She used to be painfully plain. The transformation happened overnight. Bone structure doesn’t just appear like that.”
☀️ “A man once kissed her ring and walked again after years in a wheelchair. She told him it was a coincidence.”
☀️ “A bishop tried to excommunicate her after she called him ‘spiritually limp.’ He had a heart attack. She prayed over the body.”
☀️ “She made a nun leave the order after staring at her for too long. The girl left a note: ‘She sees everything. Especially the parts you hide.’”
IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS:
- Paul Atreides — younger brother, once her savior, now her shadow.
- Alia Atreides — the unrepentant baby sister.
LOOKING FOR:
- The arranged fiance she ditched for the convent, penitents, old friends from the debutante days, religious rivals, etc etc. If you can dream it, we can build it!!!
VISUALS:
- pinterest board tbd
ripher) wrote2025-05-22 07:47 pmooc; saltburnt guest au
 RUPERT GILES SALTBURNT GUEST AU cw: n/a Background: History professor at Oxford who spends his summers at Saltburnt. Boyhood chums with Jonty; may have hooked up with Portia at some point just after Bunny was born, but neither of them are willing to divulge the truth. Got his younger brother (also known as Giles) a job as a butler in the house and won't let him forget it. He married Joyce Summers and lived with her in California for a time, where they raised their daughters, Buffy and Dawn. Joyce has recently died and Rupert has returned to England, where he hopes that he can return to his roots and try to straighten out his wayward eldest child (yr doing great Dawnie never change). Likes: Antiques; expensive wine; old books; Jonty Balfour; vinyl records; blonds. Dislikes: When people misquote Voltaire; messiness; Buffy's boyfriends. Key relationships: Buffy Summers (daughter); Giles (NPC -- brother), Stephen Strange (friend/confidante), Ianfer (friend/FWB), Alicent Hightower (friend/ex/confidante) Lookbook:
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redforce) wrote2025-05-22 10:24 am(no subject)
Notable Physical Traits.
a three-clawed scar over his left eye; missing most of his left arm above the elbow, which he usually wears a prosthetic for; shaggy red hair with a half-crown braid
rumors.
Background.
You've heard of his family, even if you know nothing about them. They're a household name, people to admire or despise, part of the social consciousness. Don't worry about what their name is. You know exactly the kind of people they are: exorbitantly wealthy, old money, old traditions, probably a little bit inbred if you go back far enough (and they go back far), with as much power and influence as the Rockefellers and Medicis combined.
Shanks is the baby of the family, the one always in the headlines and gossip rags for good or ill. When he was an infant, he was abducted and grew up apart from the family until he was fifteen. The incredible story of his return exploded all over the news — rife with shocking allegations of human trafficking, child pornography, sex slaves, and cult brainwashing — which dominated global media cycles for almost a year. Shanks never really told his side of the story; his family's PR team did all the work for him, and investigative journalists and paparazzi did the rest.
In his early thirties, he eloped with Set, his then somewhat secret paramour — which, of course, stirred another scandal, considering that he had recently and very publicly proposed to [YOU?!]. (A publicity stunt orchestrated to dispel rumors about his sexuality, which he wanted nothing to do with.)
Now, more than twenty years since the prodigal son returned, the truth of his childhood years will finally be revealed! That camera crew you've seen setting up equipment around the manor? They're here to film a new documentary, obviously! The Balfours have graciously offered to host the film crew for some of their oldest family friends. (There are even whispers of a big surprise event toward the end of filming in August — if you heard something about a vow renewal ceremony, no you didn't!)
And be sure to catch GOD VALLEY: MY LIFE AS GOLD ROGER'S APPRENTICE in select theaters OCTOBER 2008!
Personality.
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WANTED LINES.
▶ Shanks' ex-fiancé
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thirsted) wrote2025-05-21 09:02 pmSALTBURNT | au.
ASTARION ANCUNÍN
— THE SALTBURNT AU —
an escort, favored by the balfours for his beauty and quick wit. charming to whoever's paying the bill.
rumors.
Background.
Some say Astarion became a Saltburnt fixture thanks to his pretty face and charming manner; others say he was gifted to the Balfours by the man he used to work for. Either way, he's a familiar face for any guests — and perhaps a familiar presence in your bed, too, for the right price.
Personality.
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volkarin) wrote2025-05-21 08:54 pmSALTBURNT | au.
EMMRICH VOLKARIN
— THE SALTBURNT AU —
a renowned magician, famous for his death-defying feats and his ability to commune with spirits.
rumors.
Background.
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Personality.
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breeding) wrote2025-05-21 08:44 pmSALTBURNT | au.
JOHN SMITH
— THE SALTBURNT AU —
billionaire philanthropist by day, and the superhero known as "Homelander" by night.
rumors.
Background.
Anyone who's anyone knows who John Smith is — he's one of the richest men on Earth, and a regular fixture of the rumor mill, vaulted there by his wealth, the revolving door of his relationships, and the aura of tragedy and mystery around him thanks to the death (murder, some say) of his wife some years ago.
Personality.
By all accounts, a pretty nice guy.
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preborns) wrote2025-05-21 08:55 pmjune '25 au | alia "that's hot" atreides
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powerhungry) wrote2025-05-21 05:50 pmSALTBURNT | au.
SILCO
— THE SALTBURNT AU —
The Balfour family's majordomo: a steward with a long record of service at Saltburnt.
rumors.
Background.
For as long as anyone can remember, Silco has served as steward and head butler of the Balfour house, ensuring that everything remains running smoothly and that the family's every need is met. And if he resents them for their incompetence, well. That's for him to know, and for you to (never) find out. As for what you've been up to — all the dirty little secrets you've whispered to the house's walls — rest assured, he knows. He'll even enable them, if you ask very nicely.
Personality.
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